digital media ecology
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
digital media ecology
... See moreIn medieval communities…Fama was the mark of authority and reliability that attaches to a piece of information, new, gossip, and to the teller, to the subject, and to those who spread it. Fama represented reputation. It was the best means anyone had to judge truth and truth tellers apart from falsity and fantasy, from gossip and liars. It is to
On judging others reputations for reliability and diligently protecting ones own. Who do you trust and why? For what kinds of information? On what basis?
The section on “the medium is the message” can, perhaps, be clarified by pointing out that any technology gradually creates a totally new human environment.
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media
The worlds we now inhabit are digitized realms incapable by their nature and design of generating a broadly shared experience of reality.
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
the principles of efficiency and speed and optimization and profitability, recurring themes here of late, increasingly dictate how we act and interact in many if not most of the social spaces we inhabit. Thoughtless automaticity, which demoralizes all parties, becomes our default mode
L. M. Sacasas • Render Unto the Machine
In complex, modern societies, the relationship between reality and our representations of reality—between what Lippmann called the “real environment” and the “pseudo-environments” that make up our mental models of the real environment—is heavily mediated by complex chains of trust, testimony, and interpretation.
Dan Williams • Why do people believe true things?
Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is judged, and what gets attention is dictated by equations developed by Silicon Valley engineers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
When facts are already known but are worrisome, factual reporting is no longer needed, and it must turn into evaluative commenting.
Within this media environment, the audience generally wants the media to validate or invalidate what it already knows and to scare readers with what they are already scared by. The media must confirm that the scare is... See more
Within this media environment, the audience generally wants the media to validate or invalidate what it already knows and to scare readers with what they are already scared by. The media must confirm that the scare is... See more
Andrey Mir • Post-truth: too good to be true
In the conditions of news redundancy, the need for attitude is much more pressing than the need for news. Attitude precedes meaning in the ‘use-value’ of news supply by the media. The supremacy of attitude over meaning is an interesting postmodernist phenomenon: post-truth, actually, is pre-truth. The picture of the world - as-it-should-be always... See more
Andrey Mir • Post-truth: too good to be true
The question “What does it mean?” is essential to reading. Literacy legitimized questioning, an intellectual activity that could not be employed during mechanical repetition after a tradesman or in verbomotor resonance with a storyteller. Questioning the meaning of signs supplied a pattern for questioning the meaning of everything. If orality... See more